Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further incentive, the Nazis have promised unmarried mothers who register the paternity of their children as "war father" the right to sign Fran (Mrs.) before their maiden names; and promised to support children born out of wedlock whose fathers are killed in the war. Fortnight ago these encouragements finally brought a rebuke from the German clergy. In a pastoral letter to his Archdiocese of Breslau, Adolf Cardinal Bertram declared that adultery is still a sin and that "opinions and suggestions are being spread which are incompatible with obligations to preserve oneself clean and immaculate in bachelorhood...
...team at Gary, Ind. His running mate, Bill Webber, saw little regular service at Des Moines, Iowa. Diminutive Chet Legg is the only man who was a full-fledged regular before he came to Harvard. Legg played at Evanston High in Illinois and Exeter Academy. The other ranking forward, Fran Simpson, did bench duty at Oak Park, Illinois...
...diplomatic ace of France, scholarly but dapper and cosmopolitan André François-Poncet, who was once professor of German at the École Normale, later French Ambassador to Nazi Germany and now to Fascist Italy, last week hurried from Paris to Rome. On him were the eyes of the chancelleries of Europe. He was said to carry to Benito Mussolini from Edouard Daladier a generous basis for adjustment of the outstanding claims of Italy against France-claims which just 13 months ago were voiced in the Italian Chamber with raucous shouts of "Tunisia! Corsica! Nice!" (TIME...
During this hubbub the French Ambassador remained grimly seated in the Diplomatic Gallery, and afterward he strongly remonstrated with Count Ciano; but all the same, secret negotiations began. Last week M. François-Poncet was back from Paris with these reputed offers: 1) Djibouti, the French Red Sea terminus of Italian Ethiopia's only railway, to be leased to Italy for 90 years; 2) Italy to be allowed to purchase an increased share in the closely held stock of the Suez Canal Co. to insure lower rates for Italian shipping through the Canal, main water route to Ethiopia...
...some 20 divisions, with which he may help Turkey or Rumania as he once helped Poland. But the Italian Navy and Air Force could harry the flow of French munitions, troops and supplies for Syria-not that the Italian people would wish these cut off. Presumably, M. André François-Poncet was preparing the ground with the horse-trading Duce for a more or less secret Allied understanding with Italy...